Kirjahaku

Accessible to the nonscientist, this work by the author of "The Five Ages of the Universe" is a book of Genesis in seven chapters.

The WAYS OF MAGICDuring World War II, C.O. Jones, under a different name, was recruited into a special unit of the OSS (Office of Strategic Services). Special in that all the members had some kind of extrasensory abilities bordering on magic. Their main mission was to seek out and combat the Nazis' top secret Occult Practioners.But the war is now over and C.O. is just another veteran looking for a fresh start. He hopes the quiet little town of Brownsville, Pennsylvania is the perfect place to do so. That is, until he gets involved with the local criminal element and discovers, through his own unique gifts, that someone is using dark magic to further their own illegal agenda. For C.O. Jones, it seems the ways of magic are to be found in the most unlikely places.Popular new pulp writer Fred Adams, Jr. delivers another scorching thriller that races across the pages with fresh, original characters, suspense and ever-exploding action. Hold on to your seatbelts as you meet the C.O. Jones, one of the toughest new pulp heroes of them all.

WHEN THE CURTAIN FALLSFifteen years ago Sam Dunne was the lead guitarist and singer for the popular rock band, Gin Sing. Critics and fans prophesied a meteoric rise to the top of the music charts. Then Dunne's bandmates, Eddie Shay and Danny Barton, kicked him to the curb and went chasing after rock stardom without him.Dunne now works small one night gigs while teaching English Literature at a community college. He's let the past go and learned to accept things as they are. Then he turns the radio on one morning to learn Shay has been murdered: shot to death in his private home studio.Soon the police start focusing their attention on Dunne as a "person of interest." It's a custom made set-up, with him as the chief suspect based on a fifteen year old grudge he's supposed to be nurturing. When common sense proves to be useless, the former rocker is left with only one recourse: to do his own investigating and find the killer before he's fitted with a prison wardrobe.Writer Fred Adams Jr. spins a gritty, fascinating mystery authentically set in the world of sex, drugs and rock roll delivering a masterful reading experience along the way. "Dead Man's Melody" is clearly a cut above the rest.

HOLLYWOOD MONSTERSIt's 1949 and army veteran C.O. Jones is living in Los Angeles working as a private investigator. When he's hired to find a missing starlet, he soon finds himself embroiled in a sophisticated conspiracy which includes not onlykidnapping but high profile blackmail as well.All of which would be enough to keep any honest, hardworking P.I. busy but when it's Jones, there is also the added element of magic to consider. Possessing an uncanny ability to recognize arcane abilities in others, Jones begins to uncover even deadlier shadows in the background. Never mind one of them may actually be a real werewolf with his own personal interest in the case. With C.O. Jones, often times the monsters aren't only up on the big silver screen.

DESERT GHOSTSWorld War II vet C.O. Jones has come to Los Angeles to work as a Private Investigator. The business is good honest work and he is gradually adapting to the West Coast lifestyle. When he takes a job to investigate the death of an orphan boy in an isolated desert monastery, he isn't ready for the dark memories the case rekindle in him.From his earliest days as a runaway working in a traveling carnival to a particular espionage assignment during the war, Jones is about to confront an old familiar Nazis horror in the arid, California wasteland. Only now it has been reborn in the most obscene way, with lost children as its victims.Once again, Fred Adams Jr. spins a tale of suspense, menace and courage in the face of true evil. "C.O. JONES - The Damned and The Doomed" is a punch-in-the-gut pulp thriller you won't want to put down.

MURDER ON THE SET-Musician Sam Dunne takes on a gig composing a musical score for a cheap, direct to cable slasher film called "Lake Deadly." Much of the film is shot on location around a nearby lake and Dunne soon learns all is not as it seems among the cast and crew. Petty jealousies and hidden animosities threaten to derail the shooting.-What he doesn't imagine is the murder of a young woman on camera. Someone purposely switched out the fake dagger with a real one and the girl's throat is slashed in front of dozen of witnesses. All of it caught on camera.-Once again, Dunne finds himself caught up in a gruesome murder with more than enough suspects to satisfy any weary detective. Only this isn't make believe and as he attempts to solve the mystery, he is well aware the unknown killer may strike again. All are suspects and possible victims at the same time.

SEAS OF HELL-At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, a large number of the faithful fled Spain and the corrupted church to find haven and new lives on a chain of small islands south of Cuba. There, under the guidance of their priest, Father Beppo, they established peaceful fishing villages that would sustain them in both body and soul. It was their small piece of an earthly heaven.-Then black sails appeared on the horizon, furled from the masts of an unholy ship called Votrelec and captained by Varleck, a vampire pirate. Ever on the hunt for fresh bodies to man his crew of the undead, the blood hungry monster is delighted when discovering the unprotected islands. He is overconfident in his dark powers. Soon he realizes the villagers, under the guidance of the old cleric, have no intention of succumbing to his monstrous will. And so the endless battle of good versus evil is joined. But who will emerge victorious and who will fall when the seas run red with blood?